She said: “It was absolutely amazing and so much more than I was expecting.

“When I arrived I didn’t really know what I was going in to.

“I knew that there would be some important people at the reception, and that I had been invited by someone called Mike King.

“It was Mike who had phoned me to say that my dad’s name was being put forward for a bravery award but that was all I knew. We had not been in the room long when he came up and told me that the Ambassador of Taiwan and his wife were requesting to meet with me.

“I couldn’t believe that with the hundreds of important people in the room, they had asked to speak to me.”